anonymous-users

Anonymous users in Rails -- security considerations?

I'm looking at implementing some form of anonymous user system in Rails. I need to let people do things (creating records, looking at what they've created, etc), without actually creating an account. Once they create an account, everything persists without risk of losing it by clearing cookies or something. Right now, I'm thinking it's ...

ASP .NET anonymous users not getting stored in database

I'm trying to setup anonymous users in MVC. For some reason it wont store the users in the database. I have added the following in the web.config <anonymousIdentification enabled="true" /> It successfully creates the .ASPXANONYMOUS cookie when i visit the site but doesn't create the user in the database. Is this something i have to d...

Best practice for managing anonymous users' data

I'm looking for any hints on recommended, or simply tried and tested, ways of associating data with an anonymous user in a web application. I want the data to be available to users across multiple sessions, so therefore store it in the database. Obviously I will need some kind of cookie to identify that user, what I'm particularly inter...

ASP.NET membership get UserId of anonymous user

I have an existing project that i'm working on that uses .net membership. We want to expand the project to allow anonymous users but we seem to have hit a snag as we use the UserId of the aspnet_Users table as a foreign key in many of our database tables. The following call returns null as there is no record in the aspnet_Membership ta...

allowing anonymous user to save contents of a form in sharepoint doc library

I have moss 2007 configured for anonymous access. I also have a public accessible form created in infopath, which can be opened in a webpage and filled and submitted. However, an anonymous user is unable to submit the form after filling it. Submit action is supposed to save the form in a doucment library. I checked the anonymous permiss...

Anonymous access to a SharePoint site root

I have configured anonymous access on a SharePoint site for "Lists and Libraries". I then enable anonymous access to the individual lists/libraries as per my requirements. This works great, but I cannot access the root site URL where I expect to be redirected to the welcome page: Access to http://servername fails with Access Denied...

How to get aspnet_Users.UserId for an anonymous user in ASP.NET membership ?

I am trying to get the aspnet membership UserId field from an anonymous user. I have enabled anonymous identification in web.config : <anonymousIdentification enabled="true" /> I have also created a profile: <profile> <providers> <clear /> <add name="AspNetSqlProfileProvider" type="System.Web.Profile.SqlProfileProvider, S...

SharePoint anonymous access does not work on DispForm.aspx within list

I have a MOSS site that uses anonymous access, which works everywhere I need it except on DispForm.aspx for a custom list. Basically there is a custom list containing links to news articles on the internet. I have made the list available as an RSS feed, and you can pull up the feed itself just fine anonymously. However, the feed contai...

Mailing List Data Schema For Handling Of Anonymous And Registered Users

Hi, My website allows for anonymous sign-up of a mailing list. The same mailing list is also sent out to registered users. The problem is when the anonymous user transitions to a registered user --- I don't want to spam the same email address twice. My user table is as follow: CREATE table users ( user_id integer not null primary k...

Drupal anonymous user permissions problem

I have been wracking my brain on how to solve this issue for hours now, and I know I'm not the first one to encounter it. I am having trouble granting anonymous users access to node content in Drupal 6.15. I have tried everything, including inserts to MySQL, checking and double-checking every permissions setting available (yes, I have e...

How to prevent accessing unauthorized user to resource such as .pdf file in host ?

Hi At the moment in my ASP.NET webApp I have some resources such as some .pdf files or pictures in specific folder in the host . If any user know the URL of those files can access them from the browser , How can i manage access or ban anonymous user from those files ? ...

How to load roles from database for anonymous user in spring security 3 ?

Hello, I'm using Spring Security 3.0.2 and I can't find a way to load roles of anonymous user from database (I've got dynamic roles where roles can be given to everyone). I've tried to use a custom anonymousAuthenticationProvider but this provider is never called. Here is my config: <http auto-config="false"> <logout invalidate-se...

How do you get asp.net anonymous authentication token for profile support?

So I have an asp.net Web Application (Not Web Site) that I am trying to support profiles for anonymous users. I have a form and I want anonymous users to be able to enter their name and email only once, and have that information automatically accessible on the next load for them. In my Web.config I have anonymous ID setup like so: <...

how to enable anonymouse login in sharepoint server 2010

how to enable anonymouse login in sharepoint server 2010 ...

how to Give anonymous access to one page while site has windows authentication

I have already tried for Location tag and allow users = * ... but even then it is prompting for a password for the page. ...

Authorization in ASP.NET 4

I have a site which is running in ASP.NET 4.0, on Windows 7 Ultimate. It is using FormsAuthentication, with a nice little logon page, all of which is fine so far as logging in and authenticating. What is NOT working okay though is directory authorization overriding in sub-directories. I want both authenticated and non-authenticated u...

Can not access listdata.svc directly

Hi, I have a sharepoint 2010 farm solution and i have now problem accessing "http://mysite:2222/_vti_bin/listdata.svc". I am also not able to add service reference. However it was working fine for some times. and suddenly it stops working.. The case here is, when i directly try to access "http://mysite:2222/_vti_bin/listdata.svc" it s...